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Ok, why is this news? You have an entire group of people that actually does this without any crisis and it is because they can. Big write up. Further, you have lots of homeless people that do this on a regular basis because they have no choice.

What I think is piss poor is a lot of places - that sell groceries - major store chains - will toss out the food - rather then even give it away before it spoils - so that they can claim it on insurance.

Ummm just a thought but - shouldn't our major food centers have some sort of redundant back-up power supply?

Oh - on that thought shouldn't our transportation fuel centers have something of the same?

Tossing out the food is the expedient way that serves to shore up the market prices for food (ergo profits of all food vendors) and relieves the major store chains themselves from the possible legal liabilities should anything go wrong with the people who eat the food. In the U.S., the medical costs are probably the highest in the world and lawsuits can cost the losers huge amounts of money. The incentive for businesses is therefore often: better be safe than be sorry (for their profits).

Actuallty, it was meant as commentary on the fact that they ran this story to begin with. ZOMG. 'Cept they were all ZOMG when there were people doing it before hand. Never ZOMG there are homeless people dumpster diving.........again.

I just want to make sure that I heard you correctly. You said: No, but that's ok because I KNOW that one of ya'll retards didn't leave when you were supposed to AND you didn't stock up like ya'll KNEW you should have.

Yes, we should hold all people up to your glorious standards set by your armchair quarterbacking.

You may find couple that could have evacuated but didn't. But, you are mostly going to find people that have no place to go. No money to stay for an indeterminate amount of time or have jobs that prevent them from leaving. Further, prices shoot up on every little thing that is necessary-including gas.

This is going to be lost on you. You need to have your area declared a disaster, hon. It's a process.

For you to sit on the sidelines and be hypercritical makes you a part of the problem.

anyone with any sense of tomorrow knows that 2 weeks worth of food means food that does not have to be refrigerated and can be eaten without being warmed. CANNED FOOD, manual can opener, bottled water.

Already on Monday the White House sent out a lengthy email detailing the government's catastrophe prevention program:

■More than 1,500 disaster workers have been deployed along the East Coast to support states with their search and rescue operations, as well as communications and logistics.
■Another 28 FEMA teams with a total of 294 members will be standing by.
■Three rescue task forces have been set up in the Mid-Atlantic region, with four more on alert.
■Five million liters of water, 3 million meals, 900,000 blankets and 100,000 cots have been sent out. Distribution centers for these items have been set up in New Jersey and Massachusetts.
■The National Guard has deployed 1,900 troops to the affected states.
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There are a lot of things that you can nail the guy for. This isn't one of them.

What? Where is Obama's government help? Where is FEMA? Why are precious resources being diverted to downtown so that a Marathon can be held instead of being taken out into neighborhoods to help the cold and starving people of New York???

I know a few people who were quite disappointed it was cancelled.
They've been in training for the run for quite some time. Better to get the infrastructure up and running, and make sure people aren't going to freeze to death first though.

Another example of your fine reasoning and accusatory skills. You don't even know if these people asked to be compensated. Maybe they offered to work for free...TO HELP. The union thugs certainly would never do such a thing and they don't want anyone working for FREE when THEY can earn money for it...to hell with how long people have to wait and suffer for service.

You are the one who has obvious problems with facts Fred um Bitsey. So let these individuals with unknown skills do work that may fail - perhaps start fires? I don't think so. That's called being responsible - making sure that people doing critical work are skilled enough to do it.

Unions and or State law should not be concerned if they were union or not. The fact is that many need help and then you have shit like this happen. They are electrical contractors and the only difference is that they do not belong to a union

"RELATED: NJ utility denies turning away nonunion electric crew volunteers from Ala.).
So it would seem an non-issue except for someone trying to stir up trouble for the union
Fine nuff said."

You have zero reading comprehension. The claim is that the IBEW was the one refusing to let them work, or trying to keep them from helping...NOT the NJ Utility company. And there were crews from Florida as well as Ala.

Try to focus on the actual facts instead of trying so hard to be right that you make an ass out of yourself. Again.

betsy , you're dealing with idiots when you talk to dickie and vacuous. i live at the jersey shore, we saw utility trucks from alabama. alabama is a right to work state.down here we had the power back on tuesday night.